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Whatever it costs to land Amazon's HQ, Chicago should pay it

Don't blow it, Chicago. The city and the state need to offer Amazon an incentive package that reflects the extraordinary upside of landing its second headquarters—and 50,000 jobs. Joe Cahill On Business.

The developer that's redoing the shuttered post office is adding another downtown landmark to its portfolio—and helping a couple of New York investors turn a big profit in the process. Crain's has the story.

Seaway Bank's failure was mainly self-inflicted: FDIC report

A government agency does a deep dive on what led to the January failure of Chicago's largest black-owned bank, Crain's reports, and finds that a series of management errors was more responsible than the Great Recession.

We've got the photos that show how Chicago Shakespeare transformed an underused armadillo into a shape-shifting new theater.

Smashing stereotypes drives this $12 billion fund

For its part, Ariel Investments shares Mellody Hobson's commitment to diversity: 51 percent of its staff are women, while 27 percent are African-American, 13 percent are Asian and more than 7 percent are Hispanic. Two-thirds of the leadership team is female. Bloomberg has more on the story.

Preckwinkle says she has 'work to do' to avoid Cook County soda tax repeal

The two-term board president has a thin margin to work with. The November vote to approve the penny-an-ounce tax on sugar- and artificially sweetened beverages was 8-8, with Preckwinkle breaking the rare tie with one commissioner absent. The Tribune has details.

Why Toni Preckwinkle should heed Hizzoner's advice

"Good government is good politics and good politics is good government," as Richard J. Daley used to say. Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Rauner have heeded that lately. How about the county prez? Andy Shaw On Government.

Chicago Community Trust names new CEO

Helene Gayle is the first woman and first black woman to serve as top official at the foundation, which funds hundreds of nonprofits in the Chicago area. Crain's has the story.

Last year, 9-year-old Lakeview resident Giada Gambatese sold 13,061 boxes and donated them to the Gift of Caring Program, according to DNAInfo. But Giada isn't the kind of kid who rests on her laurels. This year, she wanted to sell even more boxes to benefit the program for military families.